The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

The Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS) conference series brings together researchers from

around the world to share the latest advances in the field. It provides a marquee, high-profile forum for research in

the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. AAMAS 2002, the first of the series, was held

in Bologna, followed by Melbourne (2003), New York (2004), Utrecht (2005), Hakodate (2006), Honolulu (2007),

Estoril (2008), Budapest (2009) and Toronto (2010). You are now about to enter the proceedings of AAMAS 2011,

held in Taipei, Taiwan, as AAMAS celebrates its 10th anniversary as the successful merger of three related events

that had run for some years previously.

In addition to the general track for the AAMAS 2011 conference, submissions were invited to three special tracks:

a Robotics track, a Virtual Agents track and an Innovative Applications track. The aims of these special tracks

were to give researchers from these areas a strong focus, to provide a forum for discussion and debate within the

encompassing structure of AAMAS, and to ensure that the impact of both theoretical contributions and innovative

applications were recognized. Each track was chaired by a leader in the field: Maria Gini for the robotics track,

James Lester for the virtual agents track, and Peter McBurney for the innovative applications track. The special

track chairs provided critical input to selection of Program Committee (PC) and Senior Program Committee (SPC)

members, and to the reviewer allocation and the review process itself. The final decisions concerning acceptance of

papers were taken by the AAMAS 2011 Program Co-chairs in discussion with, and in full agreement with the special

track chairs.

Only full paper submissions were solicited for AAMAS 2011. The general, robotics, virtual agents, and innovative

applications tracks received 452, 31, 51, and 41 submissions respectively, for a total of 575 submissions.

After a thorough and exciting review process, 126